1 Samuel 29:5

Is not this David whom they celebrated in dances, saying, 1 Saul has smitten his thousands, 1 And David his ten thousands?

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

Is not this David, of whom they sang one to another in dances, saying, Saul slew his thousands, and David his ten thousands?

In Context

4And the captains of the Philistines were displeased at him, and they say to him, Send the man away, and let him return to his place, where thou didst set him; and let him not come with us to the war, and let him not be a traitor in the camp: and wherewith will he be reconciled to his master? will it not be with the heads of those men?

6And Achish called David, and said to him, As the Lord lives, thou art right and approved in my eyes, and so is thy going out and thy coming in with me in the army, and I have not found any evil to charge against thee from the day that thou camest to me until this day: but thou art not approved in the eyes of the lords.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 18:7And the women began the strain, and said, 1 Saul has smitten his thousands, 1 And David his ten thousands.

Proverbs 27:14Whosoever shall bless a friend in the morning with a loud voice, 1 Shall seem to differ nothing from one who curses him. 1

Matthew Henry on 1 Samuel 29:2-6

David with the Philistines. ( b. c. 1055.) 1 Now the Philistines gathered together all their armies to Aphek: and the Israelites pitched by a fountain which is in Jezreel. 2 And the lords of the Philistines passed on by hundreds, and by thousands: but David and his men passed on in the rereward with Achish. 3 Then said the princes of the Philistines, What do these Hebrews here? And Achish said unto the princes of the Philistines, Is not this David, the servant of Saul the king of Israel, which hath been with me… Read the whole commentary →

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